Lot Essay
An illustration for the poem Quastieum Meritis in R.E. Egerton Warburton's Hunting Songs, this watercolour is thought to depict Captain The Hon. Lionel Lambart.
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A wall country 'O! Give me the man to whom naught comes amiss/One horse or another, that country or this.' R.E. Egerton Warburton Questium Meritis
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Lionel Dalhousie Robertson Edwards, R.I., R.C.A. (1878-1966)
A wall country
'O! Give me the man to whom naught comes amiss/One horse or another, that country or this.'
R.E. Egerton Warburton Questium Meritis
signed and dated 'Lionel Edwards/23' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed 'A Wall Country -/* ******-' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
13¾ x 9¾ in. (35 x 24.8 cm.)
A wall country
'O! Give me the man to whom naught comes amiss/One horse or another, that country or this.'
R.E. Egerton Warburton Questium Meritis
signed and dated 'Lionel Edwards/23' (lower left) and indistinctly inscribed 'A Wall Country -/* ******-' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour
13¾ x 9¾ in. (35 x 24.8 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 December 2011, lot 30.
Special notice
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